Aguilar Vargas, Cándido (1888–1960)

Cándido Aguilar Vargas (b. 12 February 1888; d. 19 March 1960), Mexican revolutionary, Constitutional, Convention leader, and politician. From modest origins in rural Veracruz, Aguilar signed the first revolutionary program in Veracruz, the Plan of San Ricardo, in 1910. A supporter of Francisco Madero, he became a Constitutionalist in 1913 and was governor of his home state from 1914 to 1917. He was a deputy to the Constitutional Convention of 1917, of which he was elected first vice president, a position he used to publicize progressive issues. He served as secretary of foreign relations under Venustiano Carranza (1918), to whom he remained loyal until 1920. Aguilar went into exile in the early 1920s, after the rebellion led by Adolfo De La Huerta, but returned to political activity as a federal deputy and senator in the 1930s and 1940s. He was expelled from the Mexican Revolutionary Party in 1944 for exposing corruption. He retired from the army as a division general. He spent his last years in self-imposed exile in El Salvador and Cuba and died in Mexico.

See alsoMexico, Constitutions: Constitution of 1917 .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Miguel A. Peral, Diccionario biográfico mexicano (1944), pp. 5-6.

Roderic A. Camp, Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934 (1991), pp. 1-2.

Additional Bibliography

Corzo Ramírez, Ricardo, José g. González Sierra, and David Skerritt Gardner. Nunca un desleal: Cándido Aguilar, 1889–1960. Veracruz: Colegio de México; Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1986.

                                     Roderic Ai Camp